Tool-box for vehicles.



F. J. McEWAN.

TOOL BOX FOR VEHICLES. APPLICATION FI'LED FEB. 16. 1911.

Patented Apr. 29,1919.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 29, 1919.

Application filed February 16, 1917. Serial No. 149,097.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK J. MOEWAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tool-Boxes for Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to imprvements in tool boxes for automobiles, and has for its object the provision of a tool box which will be of improved construction and which will be so located as to permit of ready access thereto. 1

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which,

Figure 1 is a sectional view through an automobile body showing the rear seat thereof in which is arranged a tool box, embodying the invention,

Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section through Fig. 1,

Fig. 3, an enlarged section taken on line w-m of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 4, a top plan view of the tool box or drawer removed.

The preferred form of construction as illustrated in the drawings, comprises a for wardly opening compartment 1 which is formed under the rear seat 2 of the vehicle in connection with which the tool box is used. Slidably mounted in the compartment 1 is a drawer 3 adapted for service as a tool box or the like. The drawer 3 is provided with an upwardly swinging lid 4 having its rearward edge hingedly connected with the body of the drawer, as at 5. Downward swinging of the front end of the lid 4 is limited by a shoulder 6.

The lid 4 is normally held in open position by means of vertical movable plunger-s 7 which are slidably mounted in brackets 8 arrang d within the drawer 3. With ach plunger 7 cooperates a helical compression spring 9 engaging at its upper end against a collar 10 provided upon the plunger. The plungers 7 engage under the lateral edge portions of the lid 4, being adapted, when the drawer is opened, to automatically swing the lid upwardly to open position.

Provided centrally at the upper side of compartment 1 is a downwardly or inwardly extending cleat or projection 11 adapted, upon inward sliding of the drawer to closed position, to engage with the lid 4 and automatically swing the same downwardly to closed position against the influence of springs 9. When the drawer is in closed position, therefore, it will be seen that the pressure of the springs 9 exerted upon the lid 4 will press the latter against the member 11, thereby serving to frictionally hold the drawer in closed position, the member 11 in turn serving to hold the lid 4 in closed position. The drawer may be provided at its front side with handles 12 for facilitating manual sliding of the same.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred form of construction for carrying my invention into effect, this is capable of variation and modification without departing from the spirit of the invention. I, therefore, do not wish to be limited to the precise details of construction set forth, but desire to avail myself of such variations and modifications as come within the scope of the appended claim.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

The combination with a compartment, of a drawer slidably mounted in said com partment; a hinged lid for the upper side of said drawer; means for normally holding said lid in open position, comprising a vertically movable plunger arranged in the drawer and adapted to engage at its upper end against the under side of said lid; a guide having two spaced lugs in which said plunger is slidably mounted; a helical com-.

pression spring interposed between one of said lugs and a shoulder on said plunger for exerting upward pressure on said plunger; name to this specification in the presence of and means for closing sald 11d against the two subscribing wltnesses.

influence of said plunger upon movement FRANK J. MOEWAN. of the drawer to closed position in said com- Witnesses: 5 partment, substantially as described. JOSHUA R. H. Poms, In testimony whereof I have signed m B. G. RICHARDS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

